China has recorded the lowest number of active confirmed COVID-19 cases since January 23 when authorities enforced full lockdown on the city of Wuhan, officials said. A spokesman from National Health Commission claimed today that there are only 481 coronavirus patients receiving treatment in mainland China. The health official also declared that the infection tally … Read more
Holiness is perhaps an under-rated quality in a hotel. What with the worldly trappings of room service, valet parking and chocolates on pillows – not to mention the Satanic temptation of mini-bars – they are normally unabashed temples of fleshly delights. The Mamilla Hotel in Jerusalem, however, is different. Don’t get me wrong: as a … Read more
Zoom quietly admits its claim of having 300 million daily active users was misleading The platform has corrected a blog post sent out last week Instead it says that it has 300 million daily meeting participants The change is significant as meeting participants can be counted multiple times Zoom still hasn’t provided a number of daily … Read more
After retiring from the Yankees nearly four years ago, Alex Rodriguez has come out of retirement to play some backyard family baseball. The former professional shortstop was joined by his fiancé Jennifer Lopez and her daughter Emme, 12, for a game of catch after the Major League Baseball’s delayed its season over coronavirus. ‘No Opening Day. No Sunday Night Baseball,’ the athlete … Read more
Slack messaging software hits record number of active users as employees across the world work from home due to the coronavirus pandemic Slack messaging software has hit a record number of active users Its instant messaging software now has 12.5 million active users That’s an increase of 2.5 million active users in the last 10 … Read more
NATURE Dangerous Earth by Ellen Prager (University of Chicago Press £20, 272 pp) Are we in the right mood just now for reading about natural disasters? Actually, it’s when you think things can’t get any worse that a book explaining just how much worse they can get is genuinely bracing, like a cold-water swim on … Read more
The Royal Navy has deployed to counter ‘unusually high’ levels of activity by Russian ships in UK waters as the country is gripped by the coronavirus crisis, it was revealed today. Nine vessels, along with helicopter support, were tasked with shadowing seven Russian warships in the English Channel and North Sea over a week. The … Read more
The havoc in the stock markets caused by the oil price war, coronavirus and the US travel ban has left one group of private investors particularly out-of-pocket and angry. These are investors in index-trackers which have been hard hit in the nerve-jangling rollercoaster of the past week. As we stand on the brink of a … Read more